Here comes the murderer! Die woman, die!

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In 1999 Sally Clark was wrongfully convicted of murdering her two babies and sentenced to life. In the final extract from this new book, she tells how she was attacked in jail and of her joy at finally being reunited with her son

I CATCH MY FIRST sight of the white prison van, each prisoner in a separate sweat box. I say: “Don’t double-cuff me. I won’t run. When I walk free, it will be as a completely vindicated person.”

It has no effect. A security guard says she will try to avoid the press getting a photo of me in the handcuffs, then carefully adjusts her make-up for the photographers.

It is dark outside when I face a barrage of flashbulbs as I am escorted to the van. Prisoners in the other boxes are listening to a radio, about the latest conviction;